Taxi tariffs may change after the introduction of compulsory carrier liability insurance (OSGOP) for passengers in Russia. In this respect report Izvestia with reference to interviewed experts.
“OSGOP states that after insurance becomes mandatory, taxi car owners – taxi companies, individual entrepreneurs and self-employed people providing passenger transport services – will have to take out insurance themselves. “This will lead to additional costs for them and therefore affect travel costs,” Irina Zaripova, head of the public council responsible for taxi development, told Izvestia.
According to the deputy chairman of the interregional union of public transport workers “Taxi Driver” Andrei Popkov, the price of the MTPL policy for a taxi now costs more than 100 thousand rubles. The cost of an OSGOP policy will be significantly lower, but drivers often change their cars for one reason or another, so they will have to buy new insurance each time. In this case, all costs will be reflected in taxi fares.
State Duma in June 2023 accepted In the second and third (final) readings, a bill providing for the introduction of compulsory life and health insurance for taxi passengers in Russia.
According to the document, a legal entity or individual entrepreneur who has received a permit to transport passengers by taxi will not be able to engage in this activity without insuring his liability for damage to the life and health of each passenger in the amount of at least 2 million rubles. Adoption of the law will make it possible to quadruple the amount of payments that citizens and their heirs can claim in case of harm to their life or health while being transported by taxi.
If approved by the Federation Council and signed by the President, the law will enter into force on September 1, 2024.
Previously at Yandex saidThis is responsible for the increase in prices of taxi rides.